Revealing the truth about 'trapped rainbowg' storage of light in metamaterials

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  He, Sailing ^a,b   He, Yingran ^a   Jin, Yi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84866059058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00583     Document Type: Article

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